NBC receives mail from shooter

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Mrs Z, I never get personally upset, you should know that by now. I wasn't offended by your post, only pointing out that you don't know the field nor the legal aspects well enough to be critical of MH staff. I'm the first to agree that major changes in how we treat MH patients is a must! As your next post indicates, apparently the judge never committed the boy...again, if he admitted himself then we can't hold him UNLESS he's actively suicidal or homicidal...since a year passed since he was treated, obviously that was not the case. Now Scuds...I tire of his attacks, when it me...no problem, I ignore him BUT MH professionals don't deserve his ignorant invective!

that's why i wrote that post, i don't understand how things happened, unfolded as they did....of course things are becoming a bit clearer..

thing is, i'm not so sure that anyone can answer why this all happened. he seems to have been evil, pure and simple. why? i don't know. why do a lot of crazed killers do what they do, why did hitler do what he did? we'll never know.
it's human nature to want to solve every puzzle-i think we feel more powerful if we can answer questions. but we can't always do so. at least not in a very satisfying way.

i just wish they hadn't aired so much of his video, etc. copycats are my concern, i know there have already been some arrests of others country-wide who have threatened to do similar--or worse!

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Danzig

that's why i wrote that post, i don't understand how things happened, unfolded as they did....of course things are becoming a bit clearer..

thing is, i'm not so sure that anyone can answer why this all happened. he seems to have been evil, pure and simple. why? i don't know. why do a lot of crazed killers do what they do, why did hitler do what he did? we'll never know.
it's human nature to want to solve every puzzle-i think we feel more powerful if we can answer questions. but we can't always do so. at least not in a very satisfying way.

i just wish they hadn't aired so much of his video, etc. copycats are my concern, i know there have already been some arrests of others country-wide who have threatened to do similar--or worse!

Yeah, this is a largely rural area of Pa where I live, in this morning's paper, a local high school had a bomb threat and a local college likewise just yesterday. There will be copycat incidents, and the beginning and end of the school year is historically when most incidents occur. There is no easy answer...certainly we need more MH services, more early intervention with kids experiencing difficulties with socialization, fewer hours spent playing violent video games at the expense of making friends and feeling a part of the world....we need a fairer society where hopelessness and helplessness are replaced by hope for a better life. All sounds simple but how do we do it? The media and so many folks simply look for blame after a tragic event occurs...the time to stop these horrible events is BEFORE they happen...instead of focusing on revenge and "justice" for criminals, we should look to prevent crime...that can never be accomplished by events that occur afterwards!